Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos backs Twitter

Maybe Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos can help fix Twitter. His private investment firm, Bezos Expeditions, is among the new investors in the fast-growing communications platform. Spark Capital also participated in the round, the amount of which was not disclosed. (VentureBeat says it was rumored to be in the $15 million range.)

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ReadWriteWeb says Bezos’ involvement is key since he “could be called Mr. Scalability.” Twitter has encountered numerous outages in recent weeks due to scalability issues.

The company notes in a blog post:

Twitter will become a sustainable business supported by a revenue model. However, our biggest opportunities will be worth pursuing only when we achieve our vision of Twitter as a global communication utility. To reach our goal, Twitter must be reliable and robust. Private funding gives us the runway we need to stay focused on the infrastructure that will help our business take flight.